Quotes About Reading

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

Åžtii ca ai citit o carte bun? când întorci ultima pagin? ÅŸi simÅ£i c? parc? ai pierdut un prieten.

You know you have read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

I must confess to generally hating sections entitled "how to read this book" and so on. I feel that, if I bought it, I should be able to read it any way I damn well please! Nevertheless, I feel some guidelines may be useful.

Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.

And then there are the laziest and most presumptuous of people, those who can read but who don't bother, who live in the smuggest ignorance and seem to me dangerous.

A reader meeting another reader is an encounter of kindred spirits. The pleasure of such a joyous event is impossible to describe to a nonreader, and why would I bother? But you, with this book in your hand, are familiar with the phenomenon, and so it is not necessary.

It seems to me that there is always something luminous in the face of a person in the act of reading.

I hate being read to. I hate the pauses. I hate the stammers and mispronunciations. Most of all I hate the slowness of it. I can read quickly and efficiently, and cannot stand someone taking charge and denying me the pleasure of reading the damned thing myself.

Reading about a far-off place can be a satisfaction in itself, and you might be thankful you're reading about the bad trip without the dust in your nose and the sun burning your head, not having to endure the unrewarding nuisance and delay of the road. But reading can also be a powerful stimulus to travel.

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the whole human race, and to read no books is to deprive the self of ready access to wisdom.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.